Sharing our faith with others (1Pe 3:15). Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. This is important because, as we will see later, you can develop temperate character, but such temperance is nothing but willpower and has nothing to do with love, joy, and equality of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is my permanent anchor! The Christian must neither insult the God of providence by despising His gifts, nor provoke Him by wasting and abusing them. But if that were true it would not be the fruit of the Spirit rather the fruit of one's self. The spiritual Christian's divine gift, and answer to a prayer for peace, is always the Presence of Christ Himself, our Peace. Use and improve our talents. God gave him the ability to interpret dreams. You know how to control yourself and your emotions. Follow the Holy Spirit even more. He carefully avoids use of tranquilizers, sleeping pills or other pharmaceuticals, except where medically prescribed.
Although restraint and self-control aren't easy, they are necessary if one. As I read, hear, study, understand and exercise the Word, applying it to my life, the fruit of the spirit will grow and mature. The first man says to himself, I shouldn't look at that stuff. Temperance is self-control and self-restraint. We can be the sun or we can be the frost unto thousands.
Murray argued that the integrity of self-control is recognized when we acquire knowledge about it at the direction of God. Let's look at it this time as a fruit of the Spirit. Paul teaches this quality as crucial for holding fast to the faith he has taught them.
Pinecrest Baptist Church. It is rarely used with verbs of motion. A person who has self-control is mild. Matthew 28:19, 20 KJV). For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. This is a byproduct of being truly connected to Christ, the True Vine. If we are to to bear "much fruit" for him we must abide constantly in Him. When others say or do something that could offend you, do you quickly retort with a harsh answer, or are you able to control your emotions and temper, remaining silent until a more appropriate time to speak? He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without overbs 25:28 (KJV). When we walk in the spirit and not according to the flesh, we produce the fruits of the Spirit in our lives. Temperance can be both physical and spiritual. Their appetites, uncontrolled and perhaps uncontrollable by mortal power, urged them into such excesses that Justice, forgetting her function in her righteous rage, smote their memories with her scales as if she would not deign to weigh them in her balances; and Mercy herself refused to champion their cause, being utterly alienated in her sympathy by the number and magnitude of their dreadful crimes. We know that providence is one of His attributes.
Temperance has to do with learning to master ourselves. We need to be kind to one another. If you spend most of your free time away from home entertaining yourself, you're not temperate. 5:1, 2 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved aregarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. Daniel asked the officer if they could just eat vegetables and drink water. True temperance teaches us to remove everything harmful.
God will beautify them with salvation (Psa 149:4). See section on Gentleness. ) The ninth and last fruit in the series Paul discusses, is temperance. Teach us what it means to have temperance.
Thornton wrote, "To be temperate we must use with moderation the common comforts that Providence bestows for the support of nature. Now, man has his realm, In it he is sovereign; and his realm is first his own nature, and secondly the space circumscribed within the influences which that nature exerts. Use it, and tell your flesh and it's cravings, NO! It is a strength and not a weakness to master one's own passions and desires. That is logical for the last fruit. There is an order to the godly character that is formed in your life. Father, in the name of Jesus I thank You for Your Holy Spirit giving me temperance and self-control.
The more one exercises or practices, the better one becomes. He watches over those who love, trust, and serve Him. 1 Corinthians 6:12, "Everything is permissible for me but not everything is beneficial. You will harass him!
The nobility of self-control, as well as the absolute necessity of it, is perceived in the study of the nature and the administration of God. In our lives, these defenses might include avoiding close relationships with sinners, meeting with other believers, and meditating on the life-giving Word of God. The opposite is the case. One last verse to memorize and I encourage you to say it ever day throughout the day. — Galatians 5:22, 23.
They were given to us to serve him with. Having temperance in your daily life allows you to look into every aspect of life objectively and keep a well-balanced attitude toward everything. God could no longer trust us. Because of his faith in the living God and God's Spirit guiding him, Daniel became a great leader.